Supervised Visitation
The Supervised Visitation Program provides Family Service Associates who are trained to work with family members whose children are in out-of-home placements such as foster care or relative placements. Family Service Associates provide supervised visitation in the family’s home or at another location as deemed appropriate by the Department for Community Based Services, Division of Protection and Permanency.
Using the Homebuilders Model, Family Service Associates identify strengths as well as areas of concern and work with family members to increase their ability to function in a manner that ensures the safety and wellbeing of the children. The Supervised Visitation Program also assists families in their ability to utilize community resources.
Family Service Associates spend an average of 2-4 hours per week with each family for the duration of their supervised visitation. Families are referred to the Supervised Visitation Program by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, Department for Community Based Services.
Our Goals
The Supervised Visitation Program strives to provide emotional support, concrete services, teach methods and techniques for dealing with identified problems and empower parents to successfully confront those problems that have disrupted the family in the past by building upon identified strengths.
The Supervised Visitation program has three primary functions:
- To keep the family safe and help prepare the family for permanency planning.
- Support the creation of an environment suitable to reunify children in placement with their family.
- To improve family functioning so the behavior that led to the children being removed will be reduced.
Funding Source
The Supervised Visitation Program is federally funded through grants from the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Cabinet for Families and Children.